Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 with Aimee Gautier-Dugger, who describes her experience waiting out the storm in Gautier, the city her ancestors founded, and the struggle to regroup after the storm.

A collection of eight interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...

A printed copy of a petition to the House of Representatives of the 24th Congress on 1 February 1837. The petition contains 91 names of Mississippi residents who were requesting that Congress set up a tribunal to scrutinize land claims in the area...

Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 26, 1977 with William Joel Blass (born 1917). As a lawyer in 1952, he successfully prosecuted the Boyce Holleman case by proving that voter fraud had kept Holleman from winning. Beginning in 1953, he...

Twenty-page typescript of the diary of Jinny Glass, dated August 7, 1964, through August 25, 1964. Glass was a Freedom Summer volunteer from California who worked at the Palmer's Crossing Community Center, south of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

Oral history.; Interview conducted with Chrysteen Flynt. Effie Chrysteen Flynt was born in November 1910 in D’Lo, MS to John Anselum Warren Sr. and Effie Bowman Warren. Her parents owned the D’Lo Mercantile Company until it burned down. Shortly...

Oral history.; Interview conducted with Minnie McDonald. Minnie Lee Weathersby McDonald was born to Kylie and Josephine Spells Weathersby in Hinds County in April 1943. Her father worked as a sharecropper and for the highway department. She has...

Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 25, 2003 with Judge Fred L. Banks, Jr. (born 1942). In the late 1960s, Judge Banks began his law career by serving for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. He was elected three times to the House...

Oral history.; Interview conducted May 26, 2007 with Wayne Crawford in West Point, Mississippi, at the home of Terry Buffington. Crawford talks about coming of age during the civil rights movement in West Point. He discusses the continued...

Oral history.; Interview conducted February 5, 11, and 12, 2003 with Dan M. Lee. The Honorable Dan M. Lee was born in Petal, Mississippi, on April 19, 1926. He graduated from Petal High School in April 1944. Justice Lee is a World War II...

Oral history.; Charles C. Jacobs Jr. was born in Greenville, Mississippi, on January 13, 1921. Mr. Jacobs attended the University of Mississippi and returned to its law school after serving as a Marine during World War II. During his career, he was...

A collection of eight interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...

Oral history.; Interview with John Daniel Wesley conducted on October 16, 1999. John Daniel Wesley was born in Lincoln County, Mississippi in 1926. He grew up on the farm his father leased and was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1945. After returning...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A traffic officer is directing traffic. A huge traffic light has words on the red ball: "Stop...Carnival parades are on!" A lamp post near the policeman has a sign that reads,...

From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of former baseball star, Dizzy Dean and Boyce Holleman at the Choctaw Restaurant in Hattiesburg, 1964. The Choctaw was Dean's favorite eatery. Reproduced in McCarty, page 177. Retouched:...

From the Hattiesburg Historical Photographs; Photograph of The No. 11 Sandwich Shop on Broadway Drive. It later became The Choctaw Restaurant. Several cars are parked outside, and two children are posed in front; 7 x 5

From the Map Collection. Descriptive note below the map: "Map of Mississippi as it appeared in 1822, five years after its admission as a state. Hinds County as shown was ceded by the Choctaw Indians in 1820. Covington County was formed in 1819,...

From the Map Collection. Map of Mississippi in 1829. From A new general atlas, comprising a complete set of maps. Philadelphia : Anthony Finley, 1829. Plate 28. Map shows counties and territories of Indian nations (Chickasaw and Choctaw). Map...